This time on P3R: Get in the car. We’re going to war. Atlus is just personally attacking me now.
(I’m half-joking. Probably.)
It’s the first day of December, and Ryoji was absent today. But I got a text from him after school asking me to meet him in the music room.
Specifically using the phrase “I need to see you right now.”
He’s sitting at the piano when we get there, by himself. Something is clearly wrong.
Don’t apologize. You’re important to me.
He’s not even sure what he wants to say. So he just thanks Minato for spending time with him, because he’s learned so many new things and got to experience so much, like the trip to Kyoto and just hanging out with everyone.
...oh. He learned to play the piano. For Minato.
Let’s do it let’s play together let’s play a duet asdfjkl;
We don’t have another time! T_T
He says that seeing the couples in Kyoto and spending time at the dorm has helped him understand what it means to build real connections with other people. They help each other overcome challenges and keep each other going. And they understand each other.
It’s… sweet, knowing what he is. He’s trying so hard to understand, and he likes people so much.
………
……Atlus. ATLUS. What is this? WHAT IS THIS? I’m not allowed to date this boy and you put THIS dialogue in this game how much more blatant can you GET OH MY GOD.
Hello, TVTropes editors, it’s not a crack ship or ships that pass in the night after a line like that.
...WHERE IS MY THIRD DIALOGUE OPTION. ATLUS. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
Yes, I want to be more than friends, I love you, please, please, please, if I love you enough I can save yo--
FUUKA NOT NOW WE’RE HAVING A MOMENT.
Fuuka comes in and says that she was passing through and heard someone playing a beautiful song, so she thought she’d come in and listen to the performance. Which. Did you just hover outside the door after he stopped playing so you could interrupt at the worst moment?
That was mean. I’m sorry, Fuuka. But seriously.
She asks who was playing. It was Ryoji. He’s right there, Fuuka, come on--
Did my boyfriend launch himself out that window to escape this interaction? Oh my god.
I never should have taken my eyes off him.
I didn’t even really get to answer him. Those weren’t definitive answers.
God. Fuck. Atlus, why. Why would you do this to me.
All I can do is go home, and spend my evening doing whatever.
Ryoji’s still absent from school, and now Aigis is gone, too.
But there’s literally nothing I can do.
I guess I’ll go to my student council meeting.
...Odagiri-kun, I know I’ve been neglecting your link. But – and I say this with as much respect as I can manage when I’m busy worrying about my boyfriend – it has been over six months. Just let this go, holy hell.
I’d rather not go home, but I guess I have to. After all, I need to get some sleep before the plot decides to go haywire.
You’ve never woken up at midnight even once this entire month? God, I should have woken you up in Kyoto.
Also the fact that Aigis went after him without telling anyone else what was going on… no. We’re a team for a reason, Aigis!
But no. He’s “dangerous”. He’s her enemy.
He also doesn’t know what’s going on at this point.
Shoutout to Atlus for the butterfly wings when she activates her powers. Thematically appropriate for the papillon heart. But look at his face! He doesn’t understand what’s happening, and you’re trying to kill him!
It triggers his memory, though.
Ryoji is the thirteenth Arcana Shadow: Death. And ten years ago, he was broken into thirteen pieces because of an incomplete awakening in the Kirijo labs. During a fight on the Moonlight Bridge against Aigis, a robot created specifically to destroy shadows, she couldn’t defeat or destroy him, so she sealed him into the only available vessel.
So, y’all killed his whole family in your fight. Oof.
Aigis says she had no other choice but to seal Death in this kid. I guess when you’re 100% focused on your goal, it certainly would seem like that.
I am curious what happened to Minato after that. I’m surprised any of the remaining scientists didn’t snatch him up. Did Aigis just never mention what happened to Death?
Apparently not, because this poor kid was left to grow up alone, until his inevitable return to Iwatodai.
...he looks like he’s in pain, now that he’s remembered.
Aigis comes at him, even though he tells her not to because he’s stronger than the first time they fought. He’s got all of his pieces now. He doesn’t want to hurt her. And he deflects her no problem with what I’m assuming is Moonless Gown. But she keeps trying, even activating Orgia Mode, until she can’t anymore.
Fuuka had been scanning for Aigis, and SEES took off immediately when she found her, so now we’re arriving two minutes too late. Aigis is down, entirely shut off, and Ryoji is not doing well.
You didn’t want any of this. It’s not your fault.
He tells SEES that the shadows exist to bring the rebirth of the “maternal being”, and that the Appriser exists to draw her to him and allow her to awaken.
Overwhelming?
Incomparable?
Inevitable?
OLCE?
He explains that he was born ten years ago and sealed inside Minato, and that Minato returning to Iwatodai set all of this in motion.
Junpei, he’s awake during the Dark Hour and won against Aigis. There’s clearly something going on here.
...plus, listen to how sad he sounds.
No wonder. An awakening will take it out of you, and he awakened to something stronger than most of us can comprehend. Minato also realizes that Ryoji was probably Pharos all along.
This would be a great opportunity to carry him home like a damsel, though. I’m gonna pretend that’s what happened, especially after the music room conversation. And I KNOW I’m gonna have to go to school tomorrow, but I’m also going to pretend I don’t have to.
But yeah. Seriously, Atlus? For real? All of that?
Just end me.
I need to go write fic or something.
They deserve to make out on a piano.
I’ll do the sad explanation next time.
(Also I’m gonna hit the image limit. X’D)
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